How A Build-Your-Own-Guitar Kit Can Build A Boy

Once upon a time there was a creative boy who got a guitar as a gift from his mother. He was all excited. What did he do? Learn to play it? Start a band?

No. He took it all apart. Within hours it was a pile of guitar parts. Why? He just wanted to see how it was put together.

Was he able to reassemble it then? No.

Do you have a boy like this? Why not give him a guitar kit and let him build his own guitar! He'll have something fascinating to do, learn all about the construction and wind up with an instrument instead of a pile of rubble.

Are you worried he might mess it up anyway, create an unplayable instrument and you'll have wasted your money? I suggest a basic beginner guitar kit with all the woodwork done and all the parts included. All he'll need is a screwdriver.

Once he builds his first guitar, he may want to build others. You could wind up with a collection of increasingly sophisticated guitars.

It would have been a blessing to that boy's mother. She would have welcomed a growing interest in guitar-building versus a home where every clock, lamp and appliance in the house was disassembled.

Some people might label that boy as destructive. Not true. He was a genius kid, with a lively curiosity, and he grew up to be quite a handyman able to build whatever he needed around the house.

If you have a boy like this, give his mind and hands something great to do. Let him build his own guitar!

B.K. Wilson received his grandmother's damaged antique guitar as a boy and gradually restored it to life. He mowed lawns to buy his second guitar and now has many guitars he loves to play. He thinks everyone should share his obsession.

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